We’re excited to announce the release of Sustainable Neighborhoods - Moravia, a collaborative and intersectoral project to develop a sustainable neighborhood plan for Medellín’s Moravia neighborhood, initiated and funded by the United Nations’ Environment Program.[caption id="attachment_6155" align="alignright" width="350"] Click on cover to read the complete...
Do you ever wonder what it would take for everyone to live in such a way that we could stop global warming?[caption id="attachment_2354" align="alignright" width="206"] Photo Credit: Jennie Moore[/caption]The Paris Agreement (UNFCC 2018) set an aspirational climate stabilization goal at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial...
Ángela María Holguín Ramírez, Cielo Maria Holguín Ramírez, and Elsy Torreglosa have been community leaders in the Moravia neighborhood of Medellín for over 20 years. Ángela is the co-founder of Moravia Tours, a local business that promotes responsible and sustainable community tourism, Cielo has led formal...
Plans for Ecocity World Summit 2019 are underway. The opening call for proposals for papers, posters, presentations, workshops, trainings and field trips is coming in September. Now is a good time to think about how you can become involved in this momentous event.This summer I...
Work is underway to shape the program for the upcoming Ecocity World Summit to be held in Vancouver, Canada from October 7 to 11, 2019.The overarching conference theme is “socially just and ecologically sustainable cities” with three sub-themes addressing:climate action circular economy informal solutions...
The World Bank (2018) has created a very useful Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals that tracks global and individual country progress towards achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS). There are 17 goals that were first articulated in 2009 and cover a wide range of...
Have you ever run across an advertisement saying dirt is good? Have you ever wondered what would need to happen for garbage to be considered beneficial?Well, garbage is just garbage until it is turned into a valuable resource. In the case of organic waste, this...
In 2009 what could have been a threshold-crossing competition into a far healthier future took place on the future of San Francisco Bay Area. As far as I’m concerned the opportunity was lost. Can we get a second chance?The competition was called “Rising Tides” and...
Following an engaging event with community leaders, city staff, academics, students, and citizen activists, Ecocity Builders has begun Phase II of its partnership with Cusco, Peru. I feel privileged to take part in this work as a landscape architect with a background in historical landscapes...
At the first Ecocity Focus Lab held in Vancouver in November 2016, participants worked on confirming headline indicators for the International Ecocity Standards. A report was produced that will lay the foundation for indicators and benchmarks by which to measure and assess the 18 system...